SETI@Home and BOINC Berkeley are both back online after a 48+ Hour power outage updat

People may have noticed both SETI@Home and the BOINC home page have been offline for over 48 hours. Both projects are in the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory building. http://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/The previos link is the to IT systems status for UCB. Both projects are still recovering with minimum webpages online and most servers still offline.

OK going to recycle this post to say UCal Berkley is having a scheduled power outage to continue the repairs from the outage in the OP. Both Seti@Home and BOINC will be offline until late on thursday as power is cut to the space sciences lab for just over 24 hours.

EDIT they did post this to the front pages on both projects for 12hours before they lost power and went offline

Well the webpage is up but only minimally as most of the DB stuff on the front page is still missing. Server status page shows may servers are still listed as disabled. I expect both projects to be online within 4 hours.

Cripes, 48+ hour outages?! What the hell is going on up there... they clearly need to kick facilities' *ss in gear.

The original break in the cable was in a long section of underground power cable. They had to find and splice the short underground. I understand it involved having a tech do a hands and knees crawl in the tunnel to find it. I understand this latest was to patch sections found to be in danger of shorting before they did short. The outage was sheded to be around 24 hours starting when the lab was unmanned. The lab shut down the server early and started up late when the staff was in the lab. Lab staff has been denied OT as the lab is currently running at a funding deficit. The have no fultime staff on the project anymore. Most of the team is half time on the SETI project or less. They are all atleast half on other fully funded projects in SSL. The last budget I saw was the project was underfunded to Berkeley to the tune of $300,000/ year that the university is making up out of general funds or simply writing off of funds like server room rent etc. No one knows how long the University will continue to allow the project to run like this for the goodwill it brings the university.

I have customers in that sector... I'm still amazed Berkeley facilities is THAT bad. (although after watching another .edu customer have a repeatedly-incorrectly-repaired leak for multiple years, maybe I'm not surprised. )